1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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in a short time, and end the season with every colony in grand 

 condition, while some that had only a few colonies would be so 

 careless and indifferent about the curing, and would not do as 

 I told them, and then I resorted to stamping the disease out 

 by fire, for the public good. 



The very wet weather that set in all over the Province in 

 the last half of May and forepart of June was a serious thing 

 as it came at a time when the hives were full of bees and 

 brood, and completely stopped all honey-gathering then. 

 With the honey-flow so suddenly shut off, the bees soon used 

 up all the unsealed honey, and then they did not uncap the 

 sealed stores fast euough to keep pace with the very large 

 quantity of larVcB that required so much feeding, the result 

 being a good deal of starved brood, which was left in the cells 

 to decay. Then when the bee-keepers found the starved 

 brood in a decaying state in their colonies, many of them 

 became greatly alarmed and believed that foul brood was 

 breaking out in their apiaries. 



Soon after that, I received many letters from bee-keepers 

 in Ontario and the United States, describing a kind of dead 

 brood that the writers found in their colonies, and wanting to 

 know if it was foul brood. In several cases it was starved 

 brood, and in many others it was the genuine foul brood. 

 This confused state of things with the constitution of so many 

 colonies going wrong, made the bee-keepers very anxious to 

 have their apiaries examined. After that, I was wanted in 

 many places; I rushed through every locality as fast as I 

 could, and kept pretty well up with the work. 1 burned one 

 colony in Oxford county that was almost dead with foul brood, 

 and nine in the county of Halton — four at one apiary and five 

 in another. The owners of both apiaries were very willing 

 that I should destroy the few diseased colonies, and helped me 

 do the burning. 



I burned three foul-broody colonies in Wellington county. 



I was well pleased with the work done by the owners of all 

 other diseased apiaries. 



In getting the foul-broody apiaries cured, I always took 

 the greatest of pains to explain to the owners how to manage 

 the business so as to have every colony a good strong one and 

 in fine condition every way when they were cured of the 

 disease. 



When I was first appointed Inspector, I made up my mind 

 not to put the names of those whose bees had foul brood, in 

 my Annual Report, but to send them to the Minister of Agri- 

 culture, along with a detailed statement of my time, carfare, 

 livery hire, the exact condition I found every apiary in that I 

 examined, and what was done and how I managed the whole 

 business, and succeeded in getting foul-broody apiaries cured 

 by the wholesale, peaceful settlements made, and justice done 

 where diseased colonies had been sold through mistakes, where 

 I burned a few foul-broody colonies, and why I did it. 



I knew well that if I was to put the names of those that 

 had foul brood in my annual report, it would hurt the sale of 

 their honey, queens and bees for a long time after their 

 apiaries were cured, and to publish the names could do no 

 person good, while it would be sure to lead to the concealment 

 of the disease. The bee-keepers of every part of the Prov- 

 ince that I have ever been in, always gave me credit for the 

 way I managed the whole business. 



At the first Board of Directors Meeting held in Lindsay, 

 in January, 189-i, it was moved by Mr. John Myers, seconded 

 by Mr. E. A. Jones, and carried, that the Inspector send all 

 the names to the Minister of Agriculture only. All the bee- 

 keepers that I heard speak of this while on my rounds through 

 the Province, were pleased that a resolution had been passed 

 prohibiting any person from getting the names except the 

 Minister of Agriculture. 



My time, carfare and livery hire amounted to $662.25. 



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